daily dose of absurdity 003 covid - climate change and much more absurd related newshellip - youtube
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the local - metro hero039s family hopes for indian funeral
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friends of a 33-year-old indian man who died when he tried to protect a woman who was being mugged on a paris metro train are trying to raise money to send his body back to india for a funeralampnbsp

drake performs quotheadlinesquot in windsor ontario squashes rumours between him amp big sean
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quotreal despairquot sweeps through greece as severe eu-imf austerity measures cripple nation
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democracynoworg - greece continues to face political turmoil over a sovereign debt crisis that has embroiled the country for almost two years on monday the greek government said it would hold new elections in the face of massive demonstrations against a new austerity package that was approved on sunday in exchange for a european union-international monetary fund bailout under the austerity deal greece will fire 15000 pubic sector this year and 150000 by 2015 the minimum wage will be reduced by 22 percent and pension plans will be be cut as lawmakers voted 100000 people protested outside the parliament building in athens some protesters engaged in rioting looting and setting fire to dozens of stores and buildings some 160 people were detained and dozens were treated for injuries to discuss the latest in greece we039re joined by maria margaronis london correspondent for the nation magazine she was in greece last week covering the economic crisis there margaronis says greece faces an quotimpossible choicequot to quoteither default on its loans by march when it owes a massive loan payment or to accept this desperate austerity program which will further sink the economy the greek people have really had enough of this: people are exhausted and desperate on the street in athens there039s a sense of everything breaking downquotto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for the additional democracy now reports visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-now daily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

florida039s quotshoot firstquot law critiqued by gun control lobby following trayvon martin shooting
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democracynoworg - we speak with caroline brewer of the brady campaign to prevent gun violence about how the killing of trayvon martin has brought renewed scrutiny to florida039s controversial quotstand your groundquot law also referred to by critics as the quotshoot firstquot law backed by the national rifle association the law expands the right of citizens to claim self-defense in the killing of others more than 20 states have similar measures in place martin says the law allowed floridians with criminal backgrounds including many who plead guilty to assault burglaries and child molestation to obtain concealed carry licenses quotyou039re talking about people who are dangerous people who are violent and yet just within a short time after the law was passed florida had hundreds and hundreds of these people with these licenses to go out and kill somebody elsequot brewer says quotand pretty much it was their word against the other person039squotto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for additional democracy now reports on gun control laws visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-nowdaily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

lawsuit seeks halt to tsa039s use of full-body scanners at airports amid safety concerns
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democracynoworg - as congress asks if full-body scanners are quoteffective security or security theaterquot we examine safety concerns at the heart of a lawsuit that seeks a freeze on the use body scanners pending an independent review the transportation and security administration has installed about 640 full-body millimeter wave and x-ray backscatter scanners at 65 airports as of january those who object to the full-body scans are subject to enhanced pat-downs and extremely invasive manual checks we039re joined by marc rotenberg executive director of the electronic privacy information center which is suing the tsa and propublica reporter michael grabell author of a series of critical articles on the new scannersto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript and download the podcast please visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-now daily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

new details emerge over police fatal shooting of elderly ex-marine kenneth chamberlain sr
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democracynoworg - democracy now co-host juan gonzalez has obtained a photograph of white plains police officer anthony carelli the officer alleged to have fired the two shots that killed kenneth chamberlain sr the 68-year-old former marine whose medical alert button accidentally summoned police to his apartment last november the police union has blasted the release of the officer039s name saying he deserves the right to a fair and impartial inquiry chamberlain039s son said he agrees but notes that the white plains police failed to grant his father the same opportunity to watch the complete independent weekday news hour read the transcript and download the podcast please visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-now daily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

egyptian military kills 14 protesters attacks journalists in brutal tahrir crackdown
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democracynoworg - a new wave of violence in cairo039s tahrir square began friday when one of several hundred peaceful protesters staging a sit-in outside the parliament building was reportedly detained and beaten by troops up to 14 people have now been killed and hundreds injured over the last three days of clashes a video uploaded sunday on youtube has circulated widely and provoked outrage at the extent of police brutality it shows a young woman being dragged and beaten by military police the top half of her body is bare her blue bra exposed her abaya or robe has been ripped off and surrounds her upper body showing that she was wearing a hijab quotwhen this woman was beaten and disrobed happened there was probably much more video evidence of people being brutally beaten down but they039re not available because the army -- right after that raid -- entered the offices of most media outlets surrounding the square and confiscated equipmentquot says democracy now correspondent sharif abdel kouddous reporting from cairo kouddous says the military confiscated two of his cameras and he also saw them take cameras from al jazeera reporters quotthis was a clampdown on information on trying to prevent these kinds of pictures from emergingquot the police attacks have overshadowed the first parliamentary elections since former president hosni mubarak was ousted in februaryto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for more reports from egypt by sharif abdel kouddous visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgtabsegyptfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowdownload the audio: http:wwwsoundcloudcomofficialdemocracynowdaily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

geek out: the future of microsoft and other news
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drake - headlines behind the scenes
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historic recall of wisconsin gov walker reveals quotpeople powerquot after 1 million sign petition
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democracynoworg - opponents of wisconsin republican gov scott walker have submitted more than a million signatures seeking his recall in a statewide vote the million-plus signatures amount to nearly double the required number of 540000 and may mark the largest recall effort in us history walker is being challenged for pushing through a controversial law ending collective bargaining rights for most public workers quotmost people do not realize that those one million signatures represent almost a half of the electorate in wisconsinquot says john nichols of the nation magazine quotwalker will be forced to face a new election because he adopted the austerity measure of the republican leadership of washington and try to balance budgets on the back of public employees tried to destroy their unions try to cut school funding and succeeded in cutting funding and we are going to have a referendum on the most fundamental of economic issuesquotto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for the additional information on democracy now visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-nowdaily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

daredevil nik wallenda walks high wire above milwaukee racetrack
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acrobat nik wallenda on tuesday august 11 completed his longest high-wire walk ever above the milwaukee mile racetrack during the wisconsin state fair ending with a thumbs up to the crowd below giving him a wild ovation a fair official saidwallenda took 33 minutes to walk 1560 feet 475 m on a wire no wider than a us nickel 10 stories above the racetrack near the state fair groundswallenda the self-proclaimed king of the high wire has several records listed with the guinness world records organization his feats have included high-wire walks above the brink of niagara falls between two chicago skyscrapers while blindfolded and across the grand canyon in arizonawallenda is part of the seventh generation of the famed flying wallenda family of acrobats his great-grandfather karl wallenda slipped and fell to his death from a high wire in puerto rico in 1978latest news center: one of the most watched news channel on youtubewebsite: http:wwwlatestnewscentercomtwitter: http:twittercomlnewscgoogle: https:plusgooglecom117035035128078200000lta href=quothttp:wwwlatestnewscentercomquotgtlatest news centerltagt

florida legislative black caucus urges federal probe of local police in trayvon martin case
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democracynoworg - we speak with florida democratic state representative mia jones who fought the passage of florida039s so-called quotstand your groundquot law that authorities say has prevented them from arresting trayvon martin039s shooter george zimmerman who is claiming he acted in self defense jones is chair of the florida legislative black caucus who sent letters to attorney general eric holder and florida gov rick scott calling for impartial investigations into the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old martin last month she says the caucus039s 24 members will work to re-evaluate the gun lawto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for democracy now interviews about racial profiling please visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-nowdaily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

guantnamo exclusive: former chief prosecutor ex-detainee call on obama to close prison 1 of 2
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wwwdemocracynoworg - on the tenth anniversary of when the united states began detaining terror suspects at its guantnamo bay military base in cuba we speak with a former prisoner and the ex-chief us prosecutor who both call for the obama administration to close the base quotpeople are locked up in isolation camps people lost their hands lost their eyes lost their limbsquot says omar deghayes who was arrested in pakistan as a terror suspect and held in us custody from may 2002 until december 2007 most of that time at guantnamo quotsome people were subjected to sleep deprivation they weren039t allowed to sleep and they had to live under those conditions for six years without being convicted of any crime which is the most unacceptable thingquot asked if prisoners were tortured at guantnamo air force colonel morris davis the former chief prosecutor at the military prison answers quoti don039t think there is any doubtquot davis resigned his position in 2007 in protest of what he called political interference in the military commissions of guantnamo prisoners quotin many cases we had evidence independent of that torture that was sufficient to establish guilt but to use torture to gain intelligence and then also to turn around and use that as evidence in an american court is just not consistent with american principlesquot davis says watch part 2: http:youtubeao2t7_5imowto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for 10 years of democracy now reports on guantnamo visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgtagsguantanamofollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-now daily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

hulu - the tonight show with jay leno: mon oct 25 2010 - watch the full episode now
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